BEING SUCCESSFUL BY
WORKING ALONGSIDE THE
ANGEL OF THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST
(Ministers meeting)
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Saturday, June 21st 2014
Santiago, Chile
Good morning, or good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren, ministers and fellow workers, ladies, and young people, girls and boys, and children present in this occasion.
May the blessings of Christ the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon myself as well, and may He speak directly to our soul, open the Scriptures to us, open our understanding to comprehend, In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
We read a passage found in St. Luke, chapter 2, verse 41, and on, which says:
“Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a days journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?
And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand it.
“BEING SUCCESSFUL BY WORKING ALONGSIDE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” that is our topic.
When the Lord Jesus Christ was twelve years old, you will notice, was with the doctors of the Law, all the wise men in the field of Judaism, and they were amazed of the wisdom and the understanding with which Jesus answered in that occasion, in that meeting with the Rabbis.
Then He had to return with Joseph and Mary to Nazareth, but He grew, not only in stature but also in knowledge and favor for with God and with man. In other words, His growth was not only physical, but was also in wisdom and favor with God and with man, which shows us that He was growing in the spiritual field, He was always attending the Father’s business, God’s business: “For I must be about my Father’s business,” says Christ, which were for him to fulfill the promised Word for that time. And to work in those businesses is to work in the business of the heavenly Father, which is what God has to carry out at that time, and He uses people to fulfill what He promised for that time.
And just as we see a trajectory of obedience and work in the divine Program relevant for that time in the life of Jesus, thus it is also in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where Christ said He would be always until the end of the world: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” St. Matthew chapter 28, verse 20, and in chapter 18, verse 20, says: “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.”
In other words, He will be with the believers in Him in all the activities, the meetings they carryout in the Name of the Lord and for the glory of the Lord, for the corresponding works in the divine Program, which corresponds for the time in which the people are living in.
There is Word for each time, and Christ fulfills all those promises in the midst of His Church and through His Church. That is why we find in Revelation chapter 22, verses 16, to 17, the words that say:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning star.
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
Here we see Christ saying what He would be doing, what God would be doing through His Angel, that he would testify of the things that would come to pass, and what the Church would be doing.
“And the Spirit (the Holy Spirit) and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
We find that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has always been doing is what Christ has commanded her to do: “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that beliveth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned.” St. Mark chapter 16, verses 15, to 16. We find that by doing that labor, the Church is working in the Lord’s business, which are the businesses of the heavenly Father. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been commanded to preach the Gospel to everyone, to the world, and to baptize whosoever believed: “He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
This is how God gives the people the opportunity to obtain salvation and eternal Life through Christ, by hearing the preaching of the Gospel of Christ though the ones sent to preach the Gospel anointed by the Holly Spirit in the midst of Christianity.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ says the same thing the Holy Spirit says, because He said that He would be with us always until the end of the world. And He also said that He would place in out mouth what we ought to speak, this is why the apostle Paul and the apostle Peter tell us about the mission the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has of preaching the Gospel to every creature. Also teaches us that the Gospel, the prophetic Word is not of any private interpretation, it is said to us in chapter 1, verses 19, and on, of Second Peter:
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:
knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
In other words, the prophetic Word, the Word of God, came by inspiration from the Holy Spirit, and Holy Spirit is Christ in the midst of His Church, as He said: “I will be with you always until the end of the world.” In Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1, and on, says:
“God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…”
We also find here how God by His Holy Spirit spoke to the prophets and through the prophets He spoke to the people. In Zechariah chapter 7, gives us certain details of how God speaks to His people; and it tells us, chapter 7, verses 11, to 12, of Zechariah:
“But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore came great wrath from the Lord of hosts.”
Here we can see that the way in which Gods speaks to His people is speaking to a man, a prophet, a man with both consciences together, commanded by God for that purpose since before the foundation of the world. In Amos chapter 3 verse 7 says: “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants his prophets.”
In other words, God’s way of doing things in the midst of the human race, we can see that it is through human instruments, as Moses, as Isaiah, as Jeremiah, as Ezekiel and the rest of the prophets. To have a clear view of what a prophet is, who is a man with both consciences together and he can hear and see in other dimensions, when God by His Spirits shows him or opens those dimensions to him. Notice Jeremiah in chapter 1, verse 4, and on, says:
“Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”
See? A prophet is known by God, it says, before I formed thee in your mother’s womb; and he was ordained a prophet before being formed in the womb, His been in Gods mind eternally. The prophets of God were in His mind since before the Creation, and also the ones who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, they were all in God’s mind, for which they are eternal and they came from the eternity and this is why it was necessary for Christ to come to redeem, to restore those people who were eternally in Gods mind unto eternity, unto eternal Life.
Now we can also understand the words of Christ that said: “Before Abraham was, I am.” Any person would ask himself: “How can this young man from a small town, from Nazareth (many people did not know that He was born in Bethlehem of Judea, which is also a small town), a young man from there comes to teach us, and telling us that He was before Abraham? How can this young man say this, when we know that He is not even fifty years old? It is that they did not know who Jesus was.
They did not know that before Jesus Christ had His physical body, He was always with the Hebrew people, and He was known as the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of the Lord, who appeared to different men of God, to the prophets, He appeared to Moses in a bush, in a tree, and He appeared to him in a Light, and when Moses comes near, He tells him: “Take thy shoe off thy foot, for thou standest on holy ground.” Moses did so, and the Angel tells him: “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob.” And the Angel begins to innumerate the reasons for His appearance. Why He appeared to him? To fulfill the promises He made to Abraham in chapter 15, of Genesis, where it tells us, chapter 15, verse 12, and on, says:
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”
Here is the prophetic Word that says that the descendant of Abraham would be in bondage in a foreign land, a land that is not theirs, and that land was Egypt, where Israel arrived; and were they were in bondage for four hundred years, but God had said that He would delivered them.
“And afterward shall they come out with great substance.”
A people in bondage coming out with great substance? That has never been seen. But is seen in the Bible, it is seen in the history of Israel, which by the hand of God came out with great substance. Remember that the scripture says that God gives the power to make riches.
The Hebrew people was delivered according to the promise given to Abraham by God, for which the Holly Spirit had to come in the pillar of fire, the Angel of the Covenant which is the Holy Spirit, remember that a spirit is a body from another dimension. And God called Moses to manifest himself through him, through that veil of flesh, God through his Spirit would manifest Himself in Moses to deliver Israel.
Moses did not performed any miracles; the greatest miracle that Moses did was: to let God us him. It was God who did all the works. God placed His Word in the heart, in the mind, in the spirit and in the mouth of Moses, he would speak it and things would come to pass. It was a work of creation, he created the judgments that he would use to chasten the nation who would have the people of God Israel oppressed.
We find that great manifestation from behalf of God through His Spirit, through the Angel of the Covenant, which is the Holy Spirit, who is Christ in His heavenly body. That is why the Scripture says that the Law was commissioned by angels; on mount Sinai were the angels of God, being headed by Christ in His heavenly body; and God in His heavenly body who is Christ. That is the mystery of God the Father and of Christ: “For Go was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself,” says the Scripture. It was God in and with His heavenly body within the body of flesh called Jesus. That is why Jesus could say: “He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father.” They were seeing the Father in His body of flesh called Jesus. This is a great mystery, but simple to understand; because the human being, being made unto the image and likeness of God, he is also soul, spirit and body. The soul is equivalent to the Father, the spirit of the human being is equivalent to the Spirit of God, and the body of the human being is equivalent to the physical body of God which is Jesus. As simple as that.
That is why when someone sees your body he says: “I saw such and such person.” And when the people were seeing the physical body of God, they were seeing God. “The Father and I, are one. He that has seen me, has seen the Father.” St. John 10, verse 30, and chapter 14, verse 6 and on.
It is important to know these divine mysteries in order to know who is the God who created Heavens and of Earth? Who is the God we believe? Who is the God that loves us and became flesh and died for us on Calvary’s Cross?
That very God would be in the midst of His Church always until the end of the world. And what would He be doing? Fulfilling what He promised for each time, that is the Work of God in and through His Church. For that reason we can see that Jesus said: “I am the light of the world, he that follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” St. John chapter 8, verse 12, but He also says: “You are the light of the world.” What Christ is, He says it in another place: “What Christ is are also His redeemed,” His believers who form His Church, and so, His Church is the same thing Christ is.
Christ is the light, His Church is also the light. Each believer is also the light, and so on, we find that what Christ is, also the believers in Him are. For example, we have Romans chapter 8, which says that we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; to all which Christ is an Heir to, the believers in Christ are also joint-heirs with Christ. Christ is the bright and morning Star, the Scripture we had at the beginning of Revelation chapter 22, verse 16 said, and consequently the morning Star is the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant; and the believers are also stars, that is why the descendant of Abraham are as the stars of Heaven. And the messengers of each age are also stars, the seven stars that are in the right hand of the Lord, of the Son of man, of Christ. And when we see the seven stars at His right hand, I see eight, because I see seven messengers and Christ who is the bright and morning Star, the utmost Star.
Now, notice, since we are speaking of: “BEING SUCCESSFUL BY WORKING ALONGSIDE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,” from stage to stage throughout the trajectory of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the believers in Christ alongside the messenger of their time, which is the Holy Spirit manifested in the instrument that Christ has for each age represented in a star, and also represented in each pastors of Asia Minor, whom represented the messengers of the seven ages; and their churches represented the stages through which the Church of the Lord would pass through.
On page 171, in the “Ages Book” the reverend William Branham says:
“Here is what I am trying to say to you. The law of reproduction is that each specie brings forth after its kind, even according to Gen. 1:11, “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.” Whatever life was in the seed came forth into a plant and thence into a fruit. The very same law applies to the church today. Whatever seed started the church will come forth and be like the original seed because it is the same seed. In these last days the true Bride-Church (Christ’s seed) will come to the Headstone, and she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him. They in the bride will be so much like Him that they will be in His very image. This is in order to be united with Him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations cannot produce this (wrong seed). They will produce their creeds and their dogmas, mixed with the Word. This mongrelizing brings forth a hybrid product.
The first son (Adam) was the spoken seed Word of God. He was given a bride to reproduce himself. That is why the bride was given to him, to reproduce himself; to produce another son of God. But she fell. She fell by hybridization. She caused him to die.
The second Son (Jesus), also a spoken Seed -Word of God was given a bride like as was Adam. But before He could marry her, she also had fallen. She, like Adam’s wife, was put to the test whether she would believe the Word of God and live, or doubt the Word and die. She doubted. She left the Word. She died.
From a little group of the true seed of the Word, God will present Christ with a beloved wife. She is a virgin of His Word. She is a virgin because she knows no man made creeds or dogmas. By and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin.”
Through the virgin Church, through the Church Bride, it says:
“…by and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin (in the Church).
In other words, God by means of His Spirit will use instruments of the very Mystical Body of His Church, through whom He will fulfill His promises.
“The members of the virgin bride will love Him, and they will love His potentials, for He is their head, and all power belongs to Him. They are subject to Him as the members of our bodies are subject to our heads.
Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it. Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His name for she has “thus saith the Lord.” Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.
Those in His bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have thus saith the Lord or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time.”
In other words, the things that have been promised that God will do, we will see them being done by the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ through the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are going to see something great; and surely it will be the Seventh Seal, surely it will be all the things that He promised to do in this end time, and where will we see it? In the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the end time in which we are living.
That is why God told the reverend William Branham: “Say nothing of this. The Third Pull will speak for itself.” In other words, the things that will be taking place during the Third Pull will be exactly what God revealed to reverend William Branham that He will do in the Third Pull; in other words, the people will be seeing the fulfillment of the Third Pull and will say: “This which is happening, it is what was promised that the Third Pull would be, and what God would do in the Third Pull.”
And the Third Pull will be fulfilled in a Great Tent-Cathedral the reverend William Branham said, and that will point out the route of the Spirit of God in the Last Day. To where the Holy Spirit has moved in the Last Day. Because the Holy Spirit has been moving from Israel, the Middle East, Asia Minor, Europe, and to North America, and the Tent Vision was not fulfilled in North America; it must be fulfilled somewhere, it must be fulfilled in the place where Christ in Holy Spirit moved to, and consequently, the revelation of the Word for the Last Day and the people that will be doing the things that are promised to be done by Christ through His Church in the Last Day will be toward were the spirit move to.
And consequently, they will be able to say that, they are working and have been successful alongside the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Angel of the Covenant will move and will fulfill those promises. Wherever we see those promises being fulfilled, that will be the territory to where Christ in Holy Spirit has moved to in the Last Day. And those people will have Christ success in their midst, does not matter if they are persecuted or misunderstood by the people as Christ was misunderstood by the people, that does not matter, the important thing is that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Last Day will be in the most important stage of It is history: the stage where She will receive the faith to be transformed and taken by Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
Because with these physical bodies that we have, we cannot be raptured; we have to be transformed, and for that reason it was said that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is going to receive the faith to be transformed and raptured. And that the faith for the rapture is and will be given by the seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, which is the Voice of Christ as Lion, not as a Lamb, but as Lion crying as when a Lion roars and seven Thunders uttering their voices. The content of those Thunders will be the revelation for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Last Day, and that revelation will give her the faith to be change and to be taken by Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. And the revelation of the seven Thunders will reveal the mystery of the Seventh Seal. The Voice of Christ as Lion will reveal in the midst of his Church the mystery of the Seventh Seal of Revelation chapter 8, which is the mystery of His Coming to His Church and for His Church.
Then afterwards there will also be the Coming of the Lord after the great tribulation, and He will come with His Church for the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom. But before that, the Coming of the Lord to His Church, which has been a mystery, that will be what will give her the faith to be transformed and rapture by Christ to go to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
There is no other way to obtain the faith for transformation and rapture. The faith for transformation and rapture will be given by the seven Thunders and the seven thunder give the revelation of the Seventh Seal, and the Seventh Seal is: the Coming of the Lord to His Church.
Under the Voice of the seven Thunders, which is the Voice of Christ speaking in the midst of His Church in a consecutive way, not the way It spoke in the days of the apostles to the present, the Holy Spirit began speaking in the midst of the Gentiles through St. Paul for the first age of the Church among the Gentiles; then It spoke by way of another messenger for the second age, then It spoke to another messenger for the third age, then through another messenger for the fourth age, then through another messenger for the fifth age, then through another messenger for the sixth age; five stages in Europe, then the Holy Spirit flies, passes to North America, and for the seventh age of the Church speaks through the reverend William Branham; that is the Voice of God for the seventh age.
Then we arrive to the golden stage of the Church: the Age of the Cornerstone, where Christ will continue speaking; there He will speak in a consecutive way. In other words, there will not… He will not stop but rather consecutively… and that will be, first thunder, and consecutively comes the second, then comes the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh thunder; and with the Voice of Christ speaking in a consecutive manner, He will open to us the mysteries that are not yet opened, and above all the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of Christ to His Church, which will give us the faith to be changed and raptured.
And all that will take place in the manifestation of the Third Pull, where there are many things that will take place, each one at the right time; without getting ahead of ourselves, neither staying behind.
And the vision of the tent that was shown and seen by the Reverent William Branham will be fulfilled in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where the Third Pull would be manifested. When he saw that Great Tent-Cathedral, remember, it was not his, he was taken to that Place; and he said that the Third Pull is in an unknown language, unknown to him, but those who will be there will know it. And to be thereF, the only thing to do is to put on the television in whatever country the people are, and there we are.
That is why each minister will be preparing himself with his congregation also for that stage, and he will be supporting all the projects pertaining to this end time in the divine Program so that every promise made by Christ to His Church become a reality. And that is how we will always be working, and obtaining success alongside the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, continue on, everyone working, with more courage each day, never be discouraged. Always be of good courage, knowing that each day, week, month or year that passes by, we are a year closer to our transformation.
We want everyone to be rewarded by Christ when the time comes, for which we must be how? Working. Always working in the Work of the Lord, for our work in the Lord is not in vain. (First Corinthians chapter 15, verse 58).
The Scripture always speaks of rewards from behalf of God for the believers in Him who work in His Program, in His Work. We have to know these things in order to know why Christ said: “Lay up treasures where? In Heaven.” Our treasure will be where? Where our heart is. And by being heavenly citizens by being born from Heaven, being born again, although we have the earthly citizenship which we have not rejected, we also have the heavenly citizenship which is the most important one; and as heavenly citizens in the spiritual realm, we work with heavenly things in the divine Program, and we lay up treasures in Heaven.
And we have to think in what God said to Moses: “Not to leave even a nail, not to leave even a hoof of an animal there in Egypt,” in other words, they would come out rich, and not even a nail will be left behind, this is that not even a hoof of the cattle, and all the believers of God of the different ages and those of our time will be made rich by God, because we have had stored our treasures in Heaven.
We already know how to store treasures in Heaven: by working in the Work of the Lord. “Because we must be about our Father’s business,” Christ said. And we say: “In the businesses of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our spiritual Father, we are descendants of Christ in the spiritual field, He is the second Adam and we are His descendants; we have already obtained the spiritual birth, we have obtained the theophany heavenly body, and we lack the physical part which will come with the transformation, where we will obtain a body like the body of Jesus Christ, eternal, immortal, incorruptible and glorified as the body He has.
All that is what Christ has for me, and for whom else? For each one of you. Therefore, we continue working and being successful alongside the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
May God bless you and keep you, and we will see each other tomorrow, God willing, in the morning.
I leave you with the reverend Patricio Lara.
“WORKING AND BEING SUCCESSFUL ALONGSIDE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”